The Little Horn Cast the Sanctuary Truth to the Ground:
And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great.....And it waxed great,....Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down....And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground;
Daniel 8:9-12
Q: How?
A: It entered the Sanctuary and attempted to usurp the Role of the Triune Godhead in the Plan of your Salvation.
IT entered the Outer Court and replaced the Altar of Burnt Offering (Sacrifice) with penance and indulgences. IT arrogated unto itself the claim to forgive your sins in IT''s Mass and Last Rights.
IT made of mockery of the Brazen Laver symbolic of Baptism by sprinkling and adding infant baptism. (The word Paul uses for Baptism is "Baptizmo" which means immersion).
IT entered the Holy Place and trashed the Table of Bread by taking the Bread of Life, God's Word, and chaining it to walls in the Middle Ages, banning the common folk from access to it and replaced it
with "Church Tradition".
with "Church Tradition".
IT also denied it's congregants full participation in the Communion Service (Mass) by allowing then to eat the wafer but the priest drinks from the cup on their behalf (the Table contained the Bread and Drink Cups--symbolic of Communion).
IT replaced the Altar of Incense (Prayers of God's people) with Confession to a human priest. It also intervened in the Holy Spirit's role in Prayer by injecting Intercessory Prayers of dead "saints". (Paul tells us that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us in our Prayers).
IT thereby snuffed out the Sanctuary Light of the 7 Branch Candlestick to the world. It snuffed out many of God's people in the Middle Ages who tried to shine the Light of Truth to the world and will do so again at the end times according to Prophecy (like the cliche says---history repeats itself).
IT then entered the MOST HOLY PLACE and reached up into the Ark of the Covenant and took scissors to the Law of God. IT cut out the 2nd Commandment about idols, cut up the 4th Commandment about the Sabbath by reducing the longest Commandment to the shortest and transferred the Solemnity of the 7th Day to the 1st day. Then IT cut the 10th Commandment (about coveting) into two so as to still have ten.
IT then climbed up above the Ark onto the Judgment Seat of God, between the 2 Cherubim angel's of gold, sat down and declared itself the Vicar of Christ and the Holy Father.
IT thereby cast the Sanctuary Truth to the ground